TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mullin,Megan
TI  - Governing the Tap: Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water
T2  - American and Comparative Environmental Policy Series
SN  - 9780262259088
AV  - HD4461.M85 2009 
U1  - 363.6/10973 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Water utilities -- United States
KW  - Water districts -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Conditional Theory of Specialized Governance -- 3 Private Costs and Public Benefits in Local Public Services -- 4 Distributing the Price of Growth -- 5 Boundaries and the Incentive to Act Alone -- 6 Fighting over Land and Water -- 7 Specialization and Fragmentation in American Local Governance -- Appendix 1 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 3 -- Appendix 2 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 4 -- Appendix 3 Explanation of Data and Model, Chapter 5 -- Notes -- References -- Index
N2  - An analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management that offers new insights into the influence of political structures on local policymaking
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ER  -